The Strumbellas Setlist

Hanging Out In My Head
Salvation
Hold Me
Maybe It’s Me
Sailing
Skin Of My Teeth
Shovels & Dirt
Greatest Enemy
Steal My Soul
Come Back Around
I’ll Wait
Great Unknown
Young & Wild
Running Out of Time
The Hired Band
All These Things That I’ve Done (The Killers cover)
Home Sweet Home
Hard Lines
We Don’t Know
Spirits

Bermuda Search Party Setlist

SiDE EFFECT
Asking 4 A Friend
Sed N Dun
Float On (Modest Mouse cover)
July
cookies n cream
Better Love
Jason
Willow

An early (6pm doors!), all ages show at Fine Line in Minneapolis had a great range of ages for the fans who were out to cheer on Canadian alt country, folk rockers The Strumbellas in the closing leg of their Into Dust tour.

Boston based Bermuda Search Party hit the stage as a quintet (vocals/guitar, bass/vocals, trombone/percussion, keyboards/trumpet, and drums) Their sophomore album, Fools on Parade was released in 2025 and their self-described “unapologetically energetic” tag suggested a fun live show was in front of us. It was a gratifyingly correct label, with the opener Side Effect pure energy. That dual brass showed up on Asking for a Friend and was the bright sound that got the crowd moving. The one-handed trumpet playing while pounding percussion with the other was a great demonstration of the effort the band was putting into it. Our lead singer was already sweating hard when we hit the first dance number, and things were ratcheting up from there. Sed and Dun might have been slightly slower tempo, but the band was still playing hard, with bass and drum blasting things forward. There was also a section of the crowd towards center front that were singing along, and I always love to see devoted fans for the opener. We were told this was their first time in Minneapolis and July let the bassist take lead vocals and the dual brass stepping in time. They were flying through the set and cookies n cream was one of their brand new 2026 EP, SIDETRACK’D. Bermuda Search Party ended their set with a popular early song, Willow, which had audience clapping in time and all of the pieces that showed off the fun and energetic presence of the band.

Headliner The Strumbellas was up next. The Canadians have been at it since 2008, with five albums, including 2024’s Part Time Believer. With original singer Simon Ward leaving the performance side of things to focus on the songwriting and taking the composer role for the band, the current line up has Jimmy Chauveau on vocals & guitar, with the majority of the original band of Jon Hembrey on lead guitar, Darryl James on bass, Isabel Ritchie on violin & keys, and David Ritter on keyboards/banjo, with Miles Gibbons being their touring drummer. It was an arena-style set up with floor lights separating three of the band members, but also eight spotlights in the back and another four major lights very low across the stage, so it was quite the production. That indie folk rock beat hit hard on the opener Hanging Out in My Head, with Chauveau instantly engaging with the audience. That violin from Ritchie was vibrant on Hold Me and was excellent above the guitars and drums. After a short welcome from Ritter, The Strumbellas played Maybe It’s Me off their newest EP, Burning Bridges into Dust. This was upbeat indie folk and the crowd was pumped, with a number of fans who seemingly knew every lyric. The keyboard intro to Skin of My Teeth was excellent and set up a slightly punchier vibe with the darker bass riff from James the counterbalance. The rapport between Ritter and Chauveau was fun to watch, as they found several early points to dance alongside each other.

That professional production extended to the band’s sleek movements to different parts of the stage throughout the set. Prodigious use of a pair of boxes at front of the stage allowed for a variety of heights and helped focus attention within and across songs. Greatest Enemy was introduced as being “very different from the recorded version” and was certainly the most country sound they had shown, though Hembrey’s guitar solo leaned it back in a rock direction. It wasn’t always obvious, but most of the band would come in for backing vocals in a variety of arrangements. Come Back Around added the audience to that, as they were taught the chorus and they jumped at the chance. Young and Wild was a major crowd pleaser and was simply a straight up rocker. It also had Chauveau walking along the entirety of the outside of the second floor balcony in the latter half. The majority of the band left the stage for a pair of songs only having vocals and keys, with the rest of the band coming back up on that second one, The Hired Band. It was closing in on ninety minutes in and Hard Lines was another song off the new album and was an extremely fast paced number. Ending as it must on Spirits, The Strumbellas had successfully threaded the needle of mixing old and new songs all supported by the rich production to make a very memorable evening.